Monday:
In the morning we went to the Ho Chi Minh (the old leader of Vietnam) area (museum, living place and a place where you can see his dead body). Unfortunately when we arrived there we found out that all those places are closed on Mondays... So that was bad luck...but we still walked around the area in the burning sun (39*C).
Afterwards we went back to the lake/old district to book tickets for the water puppet show. Only tickets still available were at 21.15, so got the tickets for this show. We went back to the hotel for a nap and then out again for dinner and the show. Didn't really know what to expect from it, but it was well worth the visit! Really amazing to see the performance. (I made some movie clips so can share with you all later). Basically they have some water basin in which they make the puppets perform some traditional vietnamese legends. But the puppet performance has a lot going in, the puppets really perform lion dances or play instuments or swing around with their hands or .. or .. you just got to see it ;). Then back to the hotel...
At 23.00 we booked a day tour at the hotel for going to the Perfume Pagoda. Not an easy job to arrange this as the normal staff were not sitting in the lobby, only the very friendly but not very intelligent security staff/new front desk person... But after some time of many misunderstandings he decided to call the regular front desk staff and then it was an easy arrangement from then on. The tour would depart around 7.45-8.15 the next morning.
Tuesday:
Had to wake up quite early to be downstairs on time for the tour. Before going on the tour had breakfast in the hotel (me: banana pancake casey: egg/ham sandwich + black extremely strong coffee). At around 8.30 the minibus arrived to pick us up, luckily most of the other participants were already on the bus so didn't have to circle around the city for too long before heading to the destination. It was a bus ride of about 2 hours, then everyone had to change onto 2 rowing boats. About 1 hour along the river with a beautiful view, some similaries with the landscape of Guillin.
There are 15(?) pagoda's on the perfume pagoda complex grounds but because the limited time we would only be able to visit 2. The first one would be a pagoda located in a cave. We had the choice to take a cable car or go for a 2KM hike up the mountain. Even thou it had rained and the tour guide had warned us it would be slippery we did decide to take the walk. Quite glad we did as it was intersting to see the local pilgrims heading to the pagoda and also enjoy the vietnamese style music played by the many stalls on the way. The pagoda was quite interesting, think I have only seen one other pagoda inside a cave before (in Xi'an).
Then once again the option to take cable car back or go for the 2KM walk again. Once again decided to walk. This time a bit regret doing so as it was indeed slippery.... While decending the stairs I did slip and fell down several steps. Luckily no serious damage! So went on going downwards at a bit reduced pace to ensure would not fall again. Arrived at the 'meeting point' safely and we went to have lunch with the tour group.
After lunch went to another pagoda which was very near to the restaurant. This time a regular style pagoda (actually not sure why they call it pagoda as I thought pagoda should be shaped in a stick shape? It is more like a regular temple complex). Anyway was still worth visiting, as it was a really nice, old style temple. Unfortunately not enough time to see the temple complex in more detail. The tour was quite rush, as the tour would have to be back at Hanoi centre at 7PM. So we head back to the boats, on the way saw more of the local foods. Saw the shells of the 'balut'/enbryo egg (will still need to find one to see the inside more clearly and maybe try to eat it??) further they had the snake wine with real snake inside, and many local mountain animals of which some I have no clue what they were. At least saw beavers and squarels.
The tour dropped us off at the hotel, and the very friendly staff allowed us to use a room which was not booked yet to let us take a shower and change clothes. Soon will be leaving to catch the train at 23.00 heading to Ho Chi Minh City (29 hours by train). Hopefully there will be internet possibilities again so I can further update everyone :D.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Hanoi
We went to our room and took a shower. Afterwards took a nap, we woke up around 15.00. Before going out we decided we would be staying one more night at the same place so we wouldn't have to waste time searching for another place. (and at 15US$ a night it ain't that bad anyways...).
At the hotel lobby I exchanged 100US$ into Vietnamese Dong, and became a millionaire instantly :D. 100US$ got me 1.7 million Dong! Now the plan was to get the train tickets for the trip to Ho Chi Minh City. The girl at the hotel lobby helped us to check how much it would be but the ticket agent she checked with charged a lot more then we expected to be paying. So we decided to go to the train station to get the tickets ourselves. Before heading to the train station we had something to eat: "Bun Rieu Cua" which is some local style soup noodles with crab meat. Tasted pretty good, but might have also been affected a bit by the fact that I was really hungry by that time already ;).
Afterwards took a taxi to the train station, when we were about half way the taxi was stopped by the police and the driver had to get out. We were left alone in the taxi for a while until the police informed us to get out of the taxi and they arranged another taxi to help us finish the journey. Not sure what was the reason he was pulled aside (I guess it might be because he was not wearing seatbelt). At the train station we went up to the counter and got the train tickets for departure the coming Tuesday. We will be departing at 23.00 and be staying in a hard sleeper compartment (57US$ per ticket, not bad for an almost 30 hours train ride).
After we finished at the trainstation went for a walk through the city. We had dinner and later ice-cream, and then went back to the hotel. On the way to the hotel a guy on a motorbike stopped me and asked if I was interested in buying books. He showed me he has a copy of the lonely planet Vietnam; but already carrying that one from the library. Did ask him wheter he had a copy of the Cambodia version. He said he could arrange it and asked another motordriver to go get it. A few minutes later the motordriver got back with a copy of LP Cambodia. They asked 250.000 Dong for it. With some negotiation got the price down to 70.000 Dong (+/- 30HK$). BTW copy is something you have to take literally, they really copied the original lonely planet.
Went back to the hotel to drop of some of our stuff and went outside again for some drinks and some more food.
Now back in the hotel again, it's 23.30 and hopefully will be enjoying a good sleep very shortly.
(will try to post some pictures tomorrow, as today I tried a few times but uploading kept failing for some reason :( )
At the hotel lobby I exchanged 100US$ into Vietnamese Dong, and became a millionaire instantly :D. 100US$ got me 1.7 million Dong! Now the plan was to get the train tickets for the trip to Ho Chi Minh City. The girl at the hotel lobby helped us to check how much it would be but the ticket agent she checked with charged a lot more then we expected to be paying. So we decided to go to the train station to get the tickets ourselves. Before heading to the train station we had something to eat: "Bun Rieu Cua" which is some local style soup noodles with crab meat. Tasted pretty good, but might have also been affected a bit by the fact that I was really hungry by that time already ;).
Afterwards took a taxi to the train station, when we were about half way the taxi was stopped by the police and the driver had to get out. We were left alone in the taxi for a while until the police informed us to get out of the taxi and they arranged another taxi to help us finish the journey. Not sure what was the reason he was pulled aside (I guess it might be because he was not wearing seatbelt). At the train station we went up to the counter and got the train tickets for departure the coming Tuesday. We will be departing at 23.00 and be staying in a hard sleeper compartment (57US$ per ticket, not bad for an almost 30 hours train ride).
After we finished at the trainstation went for a walk through the city. We had dinner and later ice-cream, and then went back to the hotel. On the way to the hotel a guy on a motorbike stopped me and asked if I was interested in buying books. He showed me he has a copy of the lonely planet Vietnam; but already carrying that one from the library. Did ask him wheter he had a copy of the Cambodia version. He said he could arrange it and asked another motordriver to go get it. A few minutes later the motordriver got back with a copy of LP Cambodia. They asked 250.000 Dong for it. With some negotiation got the price down to 70.000 Dong (+/- 30HK$). BTW copy is something you have to take literally, they really copied the original lonely planet.
Went back to the hotel to drop of some of our stuff and went outside again for some drinks and some more food.
Now back in the hotel again, it's 23.30 and hopefully will be enjoying a good sleep very shortly.
(will try to post some pictures tomorrow, as today I tried a few times but uploading kept failing for some reason :( )
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Arrived in Hanoi
We left Hong Kong last friday at around 11.40. Took the bus to Sheung Shui and transferred to the train heading to Lo Wu. Passing the customs went very smooth, luckily there were not that many people crossing the customs so almost didn't have to que up :).
After passing the customs went to get the train tickets to Guanghzhou East Station, the train left shortly afterwards. When we arrived in Guanghzhou East we already saw Casey's relative (who helped us to get the train ticket to Nanning), besides helping us with the train tickets she also helped us getting some food and drinks for on the train! She probably will never read this but still big thanks to her! From Guanghzhou East we took the subway to the main train station.
We arrived at the main train station quite on time, had about 1.5 hours before the train would depart. We just spend the time in the waiting area people-watching and having some of the food.
The train departed at 16.52, we shared our soft sleeper cabin with a chinese couple and their 3,5 months old baby. After we departed did play with a chinese girl staying a few cabins away from us. But at around 8 most people went to take a nap. Think I also went to sleep quite early; around 9. The next morning we arrived at Nanning at 5.47.
When we got off the train we went to the ticket office, we expected it would still be closed but luckily it was open already. At the que for the ticketing we met up with some other foreigners who were on the same train. One of them was Brian (US) who later decided to take the bus to Hanoi. Another one was Mikael (Sweden but living in HK) who did get on the same train as we did to Hanoi. We decided to get the hard sleeper tickets; which turned out to be a pretty good choice as we would end up having the whole cabin for ourselves. (guess in total there were less then 20 passangers taking this train!).
The train would leave at 18.15 so we had quite some time to spend in Nanning. We started off by having a simple breakfast near the train station together with Brian. Soya milk + dumplings and egg pancake. The 3 of us sat down at the table and later a chinese woman shared the table with us. When Brain helped us by getting the pancakes I put 2RMB; the price for the pancakes under his plate. When he returned he asked us who put it there, I told him it was the chinese woman who was sitting next to him. He really believed it, and looked very thankful to the woman and asked us wheter he should accept the money from her or should say something to thank her. Later we found out he thought the woman payed the 2RMB for "table sharing cost", it was a pretty funny situation (probably won't come across that well thou when reading it here ;)
Anyway, after the breakfast he went his way going to the bus station and we went into Nanning to explore a bit of the city. We went to a big park which was really nice, there were loads and loads of elderly people in the park all doing some sort of exercise. Lots of Tai Chi, Dancing, Badminton etc. etc. After crossing this part of the park we entered some sort of "Nanning Disneyland" (even some attractions with Mickey Mouse logo) was quite nice to hang around in this park althou would not dare to go into any of the attractions (most of them created lots of noise which made it sound like they wouldn't be too reliable...). Afterwards we started heading back to train station while on the way we got some cup noodles for during the trip.
Departed on schedule at 18.15, chatted for a while with Mikael, and later did read a bit in the lonely planet guide book. At 21.42 we arrived at the chinese customs (a lot earlier as expected). We had to get off the train so quickly had to get my stuff together and get off. One of the custom officials checked my passport and found there was some problem. The chop I got when crossing the chinese customs the day before looked like it mentioned I entered China in 2008... then had to put my bag through the x-ray. Seems they saw something "strange" on it so had to open my luggage and get all my stuff out. Not sure what it was but seemed it were my sunglasses that had their interest... Then after waiting a while got back on the train and did get my passport back so seems everything turned out to be fine :).
About 2 hours later we had to pass the Vietnamese customs. Got off from the train again filled out some form payed 2.5RMB for health inspection" and could get back on the train again. Then went to sleep and woke up at around 5AM. About 30 minutes later the train arrived the destination!
Outside there were some taxis waiting, but they were asking 10US$ for a ride to the city centre while local buses would just charge 3000Dong per person (+/- 0.20US$). While deciding what to do we met up again with Mikael. We asked the staff in the train station but was quite hard to get a clear answer, as they didn't really speak anything besides Vietnamese. We got the impression that there would be a bus arriving there at 6.30 which would be able to take us to the city centre. Decided to wait for that bus, when it was passed 6.30 and still not bus had shown up we checked with another staff. It seemed that we would have to go to the busstation which was only a few blocks from there...so some time was wasted but finally we did find get on the correct bus.
We went to an area in Hanoi where many small guesthouses are located. In this area we split up with Mikael as he had to go to one specific place where he booked a tour. We checked around in several guesthouses/hotels and finally ended up in the bamboo hotel. There was only one room left (4th floor/top floor), and that room was not cleaned up yet. So while waiting for the room to be cleaned up have been sitting at the hotel lobby using their free internet to type this post. (room rate 15US$ a night)
Actually half way writing this post I already got the key, but thought it would be better to wrap this post up first althou really really looking forward to have a shower!!!! Outside the weather looks really nice, and seems to be not too hot (according to my watch 32*C now).
After passing the customs went to get the train tickets to Guanghzhou East Station, the train left shortly afterwards. When we arrived in Guanghzhou East we already saw Casey's relative (who helped us to get the train ticket to Nanning), besides helping us with the train tickets she also helped us getting some food and drinks for on the train! She probably will never read this but still big thanks to her! From Guanghzhou East we took the subway to the main train station.
We arrived at the main train station quite on time, had about 1.5 hours before the train would depart. We just spend the time in the waiting area people-watching and having some of the food.
The train departed at 16.52, we shared our soft sleeper cabin with a chinese couple and their 3,5 months old baby. After we departed did play with a chinese girl staying a few cabins away from us. But at around 8 most people went to take a nap. Think I also went to sleep quite early; around 9. The next morning we arrived at Nanning at 5.47.
When we got off the train we went to the ticket office, we expected it would still be closed but luckily it was open already. At the que for the ticketing we met up with some other foreigners who were on the same train. One of them was Brian (US) who later decided to take the bus to Hanoi. Another one was Mikael (Sweden but living in HK) who did get on the same train as we did to Hanoi. We decided to get the hard sleeper tickets; which turned out to be a pretty good choice as we would end up having the whole cabin for ourselves. (guess in total there were less then 20 passangers taking this train!).
The train would leave at 18.15 so we had quite some time to spend in Nanning. We started off by having a simple breakfast near the train station together with Brian. Soya milk + dumplings and egg pancake. The 3 of us sat down at the table and later a chinese woman shared the table with us. When Brain helped us by getting the pancakes I put 2RMB; the price for the pancakes under his plate. When he returned he asked us who put it there, I told him it was the chinese woman who was sitting next to him. He really believed it, and looked very thankful to the woman and asked us wheter he should accept the money from her or should say something to thank her. Later we found out he thought the woman payed the 2RMB for "table sharing cost", it was a pretty funny situation (probably won't come across that well thou when reading it here ;)
Anyway, after the breakfast he went his way going to the bus station and we went into Nanning to explore a bit of the city. We went to a big park which was really nice, there were loads and loads of elderly people in the park all doing some sort of exercise. Lots of Tai Chi, Dancing, Badminton etc. etc. After crossing this part of the park we entered some sort of "Nanning Disneyland" (even some attractions with Mickey Mouse logo) was quite nice to hang around in this park althou would not dare to go into any of the attractions (most of them created lots of noise which made it sound like they wouldn't be too reliable...). Afterwards we started heading back to train station while on the way we got some cup noodles for during the trip.
Departed on schedule at 18.15, chatted for a while with Mikael, and later did read a bit in the lonely planet guide book. At 21.42 we arrived at the chinese customs (a lot earlier as expected). We had to get off the train so quickly had to get my stuff together and get off. One of the custom officials checked my passport and found there was some problem. The chop I got when crossing the chinese customs the day before looked like it mentioned I entered China in 2008... then had to put my bag through the x-ray. Seems they saw something "strange" on it so had to open my luggage and get all my stuff out. Not sure what it was but seemed it were my sunglasses that had their interest... Then after waiting a while got back on the train and did get my passport back so seems everything turned out to be fine :).
About 2 hours later we had to pass the Vietnamese customs. Got off from the train again filled out some form payed 2.5RMB for health inspection" and could get back on the train again. Then went to sleep and woke up at around 5AM. About 30 minutes later the train arrived the destination!
Outside there were some taxis waiting, but they were asking 10US$ for a ride to the city centre while local buses would just charge 3000Dong per person (+/- 0.20US$). While deciding what to do we met up again with Mikael. We asked the staff in the train station but was quite hard to get a clear answer, as they didn't really speak anything besides Vietnamese. We got the impression that there would be a bus arriving there at 6.30 which would be able to take us to the city centre. Decided to wait for that bus, when it was passed 6.30 and still not bus had shown up we checked with another staff. It seemed that we would have to go to the busstation which was only a few blocks from there...so some time was wasted but finally we did find get on the correct bus.
We went to an area in Hanoi where many small guesthouses are located. In this area we split up with Mikael as he had to go to one specific place where he booked a tour. We checked around in several guesthouses/hotels and finally ended up in the bamboo hotel. There was only one room left (4th floor/top floor), and that room was not cleaned up yet. So while waiting for the room to be cleaned up have been sitting at the hotel lobby using their free internet to type this post. (room rate 15US$ a night)
Actually half way writing this post I already got the key, but thought it would be better to wrap this post up first althou really really looking forward to have a shower!!!! Outside the weather looks really nice, and seems to be not too hot (according to my watch 32*C now).
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Vietnam and Cambodia trip
Finally getting ready for the upcoming trip...two countries I have never been to so far: Vietnam and Cambodia.
So far it already required quite a lot of preparation: multiple entry visa for China, multiple entry visa for Vietnam and a single entry visa for Cambodia. Actually not too sure what is the whole point of having to apply a visa...besides a good way for them to make some money... (china 400HK$, vietnam 500HK$, cambodia 200HK$ + new passport size pics and several copies...) Besides the costs it requires quite some patience, there is a lot of waiting involved. Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just let me pay at the customs??
Anyway that part has been dealt with, so now it will be time for the more interesting fun part to begin: the actual trip :D.
Almost forgot, got one more thing done for the preparation, picked up a new compact camera a Ricoh GX200. The previous compact camera I had was quite disapointing when it comes to quality (Nikon Coolpix ...forgot the model name). Would be pretty tragic when having a great trip and then to come home and find out most of your pictures are not worth looking at due to the quality. So now we will be armed with a Canon EOS 350D (used by my girlfriend) and I will be using the Ricoh GX200.
So now about the trip:
Will be starting the coming Friday. First take the bus to Sheung Shui from there a short ride on the train to Lo Wu there cross the border with mainland and arrive in Shenzhen. From Shenzhen will be getting on the train to Guangzhou. From Guangzhou the "real" travelling will begin, departure at 16.52 and after approximately a 13 hour train ride arrive in Nanning (see the map above).
In Nanning we will try to get same day tickets for the train bringing us to Hanoi (approx. 13 hours by train again). If we can't get tickets for the same day we will be spending one night in Nanning, but hopefully this will not be needed...
Then we will spend several days in Hanoi for sightseeing. Not really sure yet what to expect, see or visit....don't really like to be too prepared when travelling, think it is nicer to be surprised or find things out during the actual trip... (or is it just a bad excuse for being lazy to study guide books ;)
From Hanoi once again a long train ride...the longest one during this trip (my personal longest train ride: Chengdu -> Lhasa 48 hours): approx. 30 hours to Ho Chi Minh City (see map)
Once again time for sightseeing :D Details will follow after the trip ;).
Then next we will take bus for a change: approx. 6 hours from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh. Sightseeing time...and then another bus ride heading to Siem Reap (about 6 hours). And then we will be taking the same route backwards heading back home -> Hong Kong....
As I said before, not really certain about what I will see yet, will probably do most of the guide book reading during the long train journeys. But expect to at least:
- Have Vietnamese Spring Roll
- See the Killing Fields, Cambodia
- See the Angkor Wat, Cambodia
- See Pradal Serey (Cambodian style kickboxing)
Further not much expectation...just hope it will be another great experience :D
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
New TV-Show season has started
The new season has started!
Which shows am I currently watching:
The Apprentice
So far have seen 2 episodes... And must say so far I am not that impressed. On the first episode they need to make cup-cakes and sell them for charity. Honestly was quite surprised when I saw them seriously making cup-cakes. In my impression it was all about money, who cares the product! Think they should have focussed a lot more on using their celebrity power to get some $$$ in... At the end in total they raised about 120K? And that was done with 16 celebrities, that makes 7.5K a head. Would expect a celebrity that makes millions to have contacts that can easily pay more than that for charity (and probably more important being able to show off on national television that they do something good for charity).
The second episode, wow both teams seriously lacked any originality.... And both teams were a total mess during the preparation. Hope the show will start improving soon....
Hells Kitchen
Great show, althou quite confident certain people should have been fired but just kept on the show to keep pissing off Ramsey...
Breaking Bad
Interesting show. Not very realistic I guess, but do like the aspect of the good person gone bad after he found out he is terminally ill. Did have some moments in my life when I would think what woul I do when there is nothing left to loose...
Lie To Me
I like this show, but think you do have to take the concept with a huge grain of salt. Really doubt it would be so easy for certain people to read others that precisely especially when not being able to really focus on a specific person. But still makes for a great show...
Survivor (occasionally)
Still haven't really made up my mind for this show... I would like this show to move more back to it's roots. A real survivor! Just let them survive without all the games to get bonus items etc. Think it would be a lot more interesting to see, althou the general public might not agree with me here? (understand conditions can be harsh already, but handing out fishing gear etc. after the first challenge? Can't they let them suffer a bit longer if the people on the show have no creativity to make use of the natural equipment in their environment?).
Yea I realize I do watch quite a lot of shows, a bit too much free time.... Hope soon that will be over...and I can complain again about a busy work schedule ;).
Which shows am I currently watching:
The Apprentice
So far have seen 2 episodes... And must say so far I am not that impressed. On the first episode they need to make cup-cakes and sell them for charity. Honestly was quite surprised when I saw them seriously making cup-cakes. In my impression it was all about money, who cares the product! Think they should have focussed a lot more on using their celebrity power to get some $$$ in... At the end in total they raised about 120K? And that was done with 16 celebrities, that makes 7.5K a head. Would expect a celebrity that makes millions to have contacts that can easily pay more than that for charity (and probably more important being able to show off on national television that they do something good for charity).
The second episode, wow both teams seriously lacked any originality.... And both teams were a total mess during the preparation. Hope the show will start improving soon....
Hells Kitchen
Great show, althou quite confident certain people should have been fired but just kept on the show to keep pissing off Ramsey...
Breaking Bad
Interesting show. Not very realistic I guess, but do like the aspect of the good person gone bad after he found out he is terminally ill. Did have some moments in my life when I would think what woul I do when there is nothing left to loose...
Lie To Me
I like this show, but think you do have to take the concept with a huge grain of salt. Really doubt it would be so easy for certain people to read others that precisely especially when not being able to really focus on a specific person. But still makes for a great show...
Survivor (occasionally)
Still haven't really made up my mind for this show... I would like this show to move more back to it's roots. A real survivor! Just let them survive without all the games to get bonus items etc. Think it would be a lot more interesting to see, althou the general public might not agree with me here? (understand conditions can be harsh already, but handing out fishing gear etc. after the first challenge? Can't they let them suffer a bit longer if the people on the show have no creativity to make use of the natural equipment in their environment?).
Yea I realize I do watch quite a lot of shows, a bit too much free time.... Hope soon that will be over...and I can complain again about a busy work schedule ;).
Back.....after almost a year...shame on me ;)
Won't bore any readers with what has happened with me in the past year, as truthfully not that much....
Finally have something exciting to mention again ;) (partially a joke, getting a new watch was NOT the most exciting thing that happened in the past year! Just sometimes really loose interest to update my blog).
I got a new watch, the:
Suunto Advizor
Initially I thought of getting a watch with just a heart rate monitor. But then when my girlfriend mentioned she would be interested in other functions (e.g. digital compass) that obviously got me interested in these functions as well. There ain't too many choices out there when you want a watch that has heart rate monitor, digital compass, altitude, barometer etc. But did think this particular watch would be far above the budget I had in mind... Did check around in several stores, and thought I would end up giving all the watches I had seen some more thought. But then we came in the last shop (inside Sino centre). They were the first shop that had the Advizor in stock. Did check the prize even thou expecting it to be not too far off from the 3750HK$ suggested retail, turned out they asked 2580HK$ for it. At that point started to become quite hard to resist to get it ;). Still compared it with a T6 series watch (even thou that one is even more expensive...). Finally decided I would get it if they lowered the price just a little bit more, so finally got the watch for 2550HK$ (seems to me a really good deal?; please no comments mentioning you got it cheaper some other place because that would really make me feel bad ;).
Comments about the watch so far: it does have a lot of functions....a manual as thick as the bible... So still haven't figured out how to work anything beyond the basics. Still have some reading to do before can really put it through the test during any upcoming hiking practice or maybe during my upcoming holiday...
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Recently...
Ain't easy to find the motivation to update my blog very frequent. But here is another update :)
Recently my neighbours have moved out :'(. So life around here has become a lot more boring... It always was nice to arrive back home and see these kids running around. Now the house next door is being renovated, so no kids to play with these days...
There is a chance that Big Rice and Marc (who recently got married; should post some pics of that soon as well....) will be renting the place next door. Which would be quite nice.
Further my teaching job is going quite well these days, the girl quite enjoys to play with me in general. The girl is really interesting, very different from most other kids.
It is quite interesting to see how others raise a child, in many ways quite different from how I would prefer to raise mine.
Here some pics of her being pregnant:
As you can see, being pregnant/giving birth ain't that enjoyable....she wasn't on any painkillers here....
Recently my neighbours have moved out :'(. So life around here has become a lot more boring... It always was nice to arrive back home and see these kids running around. Now the house next door is being renovated, so no kids to play with these days...
There is a chance that Big Rice and Marc (who recently got married; should post some pics of that soon as well....) will be renting the place next door. Which would be quite nice.
Further my teaching job is going quite well these days, the girl quite enjoys to play with me in general. The girl is really interesting, very different from most other kids.It is quite interesting to see how others raise a child, in many ways quite different from how I would prefer to raise mine.
Here some pics of her being pregnant:
As you can see, being pregnant/giving birth ain't that enjoyable....she wasn't on any painkillers here....
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